L34 la haine key scene analysis

Entrance Activity

WHAT is Vinz ‘reproducing’ in the mirror?HOW does this compare to Marco and Ciro in Gomorrah?WHY is Vinz doing this?

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FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Title: ‘La Haine’ (1995 – Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)

Date: Thursday 14th January 2016

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap prior learning.

• YOU WILL develop your understating of the FINAL Brief Text you should refer to in the Exam.

• YOU WILL analyse x2 Key Scenes that SHOULD be referred to specifically.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

Do you agree?

‘It is vital to understand the social and political context of films.’ How far do you agree with this in relation to the films you have studied for this topic?

Key term: Zeitgeist - 1995

• Do the themes & issues of this text still reverberate today?

How far do the films you have studied for this topic use cinematic techniques to manipulate a particular audience response?

YOU MUST analyse the Cinematography (Angles and movement), Editing and Sound in the scene to establish HOW the a response is manipulated from the spectator.

Extension – Narrative – Is there a ‘resolution’ (Syd Field) to this story?

Idle youth,Subservient to everything,I have frittered away my lifeThrough gentleness.Ah! may the time comeWhen hearts will meet!

“Les Poètes de sept ans”

Arthur Rimbaud

Unemployed and doing nothing all day

Less important than anything else

Death is the mystic granary of God;The poor man's purse; his fatherland of yore;The Gate that opens into heavens un trod! Symbolism –

Are the 3 protagonists about to venture into an unknown land/future?

FM4 – Section A

YOU MUST get this out to help you with the Key Scene Analysis.

1) Disillusioned Youth2) Prejudice3) Neglect & Poverty

Using your exercise books, YOU MUST analyse an example (x1 scene) where these themes are represented to the spectator.

YOU SHOULD note down Film Language examples – Verbal, Non-Verbal and Technical Codes – that help establish these themes to the spectator.

Extension – YOU COULD compare HOW these themes are represented in the other texts we have studied.

Hubert discussing with his Mother how he wants to leave the Estate and how “The World is Yours” frustrates him later on in the text.

Art Gallery scene, Feelings towards the police

Setting, lack of money/material possessions, Drugs and other criminal iconography

Suggested scenes1) Disillusioned Youth2) Prejudice3) Neglect & Poverty

1) 11 mins

2)

1 hour 3 mins 30 secs

Suggested scenes1) Disillusioned Youth2) Prejudice3) Neglect & Poverty

3)

23 mins

What have you learnt?

What have you learnt?

• EVALUATE What themes and/or characters from the text convey how the text represents a “difficult, urban environment”?

2 minutes

Homework

• Complete a Character Analysis of ONE of the Main Protagonists from the text (1 Page) – What character role do they conform to? (Propp)

• Go to the FM4 – Section A page to complete some revision.

Due: Monday 18th January – Period 5